Let the Mystery move me where it will.......

Being authentic is the ability to be true to oneself.  Living an authentic life requires the ability to be true to our own wants, needs and desires and not live our lives by the opinion of others.   Being authentic is the ability to make self-honoring choices and stand firmly in who we are in our core. Being true to ourselves gives us the insight and compassion to see others for who they are, not who we expect them to be.  It frees us up from the judgment of ourselves and others and it gives others the freedom to be themselves as well.

~ Victoria J. Reynolds

From the edge of the world flowed a stream of consciousness,

mixing thoughts,

ideas,

statements,

and

perceptions of the world.

I stood in the middle of it for a very long time.

I felt the flow of others truth,

carving out an indention in my heart

gradually wearing me down, moving speck after speck of my hope,

rolling, moving, ebbing tide,

splash, crash, and it goes on....repeating itself day after day, week after week, year after year.....until I could barely stand to stay afloat any more.

The rush almost swept me away,

I could barely keep my head above to breath,

but

yet...

my desire to be part of the whole

kept me treading,

moving,

using all my energy to flow along with others.

One day,

I passed over the damn of ideology,

moved over the stagnant realm of old beliefs

and

all

at once

for

my last time,

I held onto

the

faith of my childhood..

believed

hoped,

and

pleaded with the Mystery to

help me just roll on with the waves of others in

a slow steady ebb.

....

one day in a flash of a moment....

my authentic self

could no longer flow with the stream,

could no longer

stay in the center of

the of complacency of the same ole same ole

and

I let go of the ancient root

let go of all I expected

let go of hopes and dreams and old truths

and

entered into

a whole new world of

authentic truth

which changes from day to day....

it is a bit scary

letting go of the my old holding spot...

but

freeing..

today

on this Monday night..

I'm learning to let the Mystery take me where it will,

learning to enjoy the occasional wave that raises me up,

learning to scream with excitement as it carries me over to new horizons,

It is lifting me into realms of surprising joy

and I settle

in

for an authentic blessing of an ebbing tide

as I scream an undying Thank You.......to the Creator of it all.

blessings to all of you...